This restarting leads to some pretty hot heads, and negative feelings towards your cooperators.This Design concept establishes a minimum baseline of 'you must be performing at X to pass this content', Which ultimately necessitates a DPS Meter to measure yourself and party members when progressing through a fight. For example Games like WOW and FFXIV have 'DPS Checks', where if enough damage isnt done quickly enough- the encounter is usually lost, and you have to start over. They create a 'Wall' or a barrier to the players progression, that is tied to the core of their classes performance- A healer has a heal check, a tank has a mitigation check, and a dps has a DPS Check.

In 'the wall' philosophy the developers, as a way to push player skill and player engagement, design content with a target level of performance in mind.

DPS Meters will exist no matter what- because they exist to inform. its a recurring issue in every MMO, and it usually comes down to Two design philosophies for encounters, Both of which are generally predicated on the same core design goal - 'content life cycle' (which ill get to). from a long time of MMOing.(since the beginning of time, sorry for the incoming rant). If you are parsing gray, you are terrible, and that's that.ĭPS Meters aren't the issue. It doesn't matter if you came back to the game a week ago, are wearing entry-level gear and the people judging you got their orange parses doing the exact same DPS as you except on week 1. But the reality is that most people use it as a standardized leaderboard where the context of anything doesn't matter just the colour of your parse, and you are judged by that. On it's face, the aggregate log websites are awesome for analysis and improvement. In FFXIV and WoW, for most players who raid, your identity as a player lives and dies by your highest percentile parse on a given fight. In FFXIV you just have the best gear and minimize your time off the boss sometimes to the detriment of your group. Nevermind that a lot of high percentile parses are devoid of context (gear, fight length, everyone else in the fight, strategy, etc).Ī thing that is very common in WoW is maximizing pad damage by always keeping adds up. Some kind of important mechanic? Let someone else do it bro, I gotta pump! Common pug strategy calls for getting off the boss or something? Fuck that shit homie, I'm going for percentile! People will literally stop trying to play the game/kill the fight if they die and sometimes try to sabotage runs. When that is the widespread norm, all that matters is MAX DPS ALL THE TIME. The actual downside of widespread DPS meters and everyones performance, being unwillingly or not, thrown onto a globalized leaderboard (warcraftlogs, fflogs, etc) is what it does to player attitude and how they approach playing the games. I think everyone in this thread is getting too focused on 'the downside of meters is hurt feelies'.

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